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- Beth Starborn
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First Pages with Rachelle Burk
- a picture book: Autumn Wants a Treasure Chest
Listener question answered by agent Elizabeth Harding
- How do you know when you have a picture book character that is worthy of a series?
In the conversation with Chris Cheng you’ll hear about
- Asian Festival of Children’s Content 2013 (AFCC)
- (and here is an article about it, too)
- what so important about this festival.
- why should be people put this on their calendars?
- what does it offer the attendee?
- SCBWI Bologna
- and an article here
- what so important about this festival.
- why should be people put this on their calendars?
- what does it offer the attendee?
- Water (new picture book)
- tied in with UN year of water cooperation
- Python (his shortlisted narrative non-fiction picture book … awards get announced mid august (biggest OZ kids book awards) has been pubbed in USA and also coming out in Danish
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If you want to submit for First Pages segment
All First Pages will be critiqued anonymously. Submit them as follows:
- to
su*****@ka********.com
as attachments. - Formatted correctly as for submission to a publisher for example, click here.
They’ll be critiqued for:
- Title: Is it catchy?
- Recommended target age
- Hook: Do you have a powerful, catchy opening that will hook the reader?
- Rhyme and meter (if applicable): Is the rhyme scheme and meter consistent?
- Do you “show” rather than “tell”?
- Dialogue: Is it believable? Is there a good balance between dialogue and action? Are dialogue tags used well?
- Character Development
- Illustration considerations: Does the story lend itself to lively and interesting illustrations? Does the story give unnecessary details that can be shown instead in the illustrations?
- Miscellaneous: Comments on word choice or sentence structure as needed
